ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) – City and County planners presented to the Fort Wayne Plan Commission updates to The Fort Wayne-Allen County Comprehensive Plan, also known as the “All in Allen Plan,” on Monday night.
Implemented three years ago, this was the first set of proposed changes to the plan. The updates were described as minor and technical, mainly for land use and development.
The All in Allen Plan acts as a blueprint to guide growth and development in Allen County across all categories: agriculture, housing, economic development, transportation, infrastructure, etc.
Senior Land Use Planner for the Department of Planning Services, Dave Schaab, said that his team looked at approved rezoning, subdivisions, and annexations that have happened since 2023 to determine what changes need to be made in the plan.
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“The benefit is to keep all of the development trends and all the information up to date so that when a new application or new project does come in, it has all the most recent and up to date information, and it’s going to help the planning commission members, and it’s going to help staff, and it’s going to help community members really be informed,” explains Schaab…